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Storefront pot shops still uncertain even with Liberals’ legalization push

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 02:54

One of the incoming Liberal government’s more high-profile campaign planks is its plan to legalize recreational marijuana use, which raises the spectre that Vancouver’s ubiquitous – and, at least for now, illegal – pot shops could soon bloom across the country.

But long-time MP and recent Liberal health critic Hedy Fry said any move to allow storefront sales of cannabis – whether at retail shops or pharmacies, or both – would need approval from an upcoming task force comprising municipal, provincial and federal politicians, law enforcement, and public health and addiction experts.

The outgoing Conservative government was vehemently opposed to both medical and recreational use of pot, and only created the new federal mail-order system for cannabis patients at the beginning of last year after losses in the Supreme Court of Canada. It also used the issue to repeatedly attack Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau during the federal election campaign.

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